BALESHWAR RAVIDAS Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner has been denied appointment by the respondents on Class IV Post in the district of Hazaribagh in respect of which a panel was prepared pursuant to an advertisement bearing no. V02/02 dated 24th April, 2002 issued by Assistant Director(Employment), Hazaribagh, respondent no. 4. The petitioner participated in the written test and physical test before the Selection Committee and a panel was prepared on 21st October, 2005, which is enclosed as Annexure A to the first counter affidavit. The petitioner being a person from Scheduled Caste Category was placed at Serial no. 370 in the said panel.

(2.) IT is the contention of the petitioner that in the list prepared for the scheduled caste candidate his place was at serial no. 42, which is contained at Annexure -3 series. It is the petitioner's case that a person from the same scheduled caste list at serial no. 45 being Ranji Kumar has been given appointment. It is also stated that the same person's name is at serial no. 385 in the panel whose name is at serial no. 45 in the list of scheduled caste candidates. The respondents were asked to specifically answer why the candidature of this petitioner was ignored while that of the said Ranjit Kumar was considered and he was granted appointment.

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner, however, submits that no notice was either published in the local Newspaper or personally served to the candidates including the petitioner to appear before the District Laval Panel Construction Committee and as such his case cannot be rejected on such frivolous ground when another person, namely, Ranjit Kumar is at serial no. 385, as already indicated above, has been granted appointment while the petitioner was at serial no. 370 in the said panel and from the said scheduled caste category.